It Begins… Obama EPA Starts Tracking “Greenhouse Gases” in Florida

Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, September 15, 2011, 9:15 PM

Tampa Electric completed the installation of $330 million in Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) equipment at the company’s Big Bend Power Station in 2007. Now the company will have to pay for “greenhouse gas” emissions. (Terra Daily)

The Obama Environmental Protection Agency has spent the last year collecting emissions data from Tampa Bay’s largest polluters. Now they are telling companies in the region that they have until the end of the month to submit information on how many “tons” of “heat-trapping greenhouse gases” they produced in 2010.TBO.com reported:

The Tampa Bay region’s largest polluters have until the end of the month to tell federal officials how many tons of heat-trapping greenhouse gases they produced in 2010.

The Environmental Protection Agency has spent the last year collecting emissions data from lots of polluters, ranging from power plants to pig farmers. The deadline is Sept. 30.

The registry echoes the agency’s long-established Toxic Release Inventory, which tracks industrial pollution such as lead and mercury.

Congress set up the greenhouse registry as a way to track emissions with an eye toward future limits on the heat-trapping chemicals that scientists say have warmed the planet for the last century or more. Reporting is mandatory for companies that produce more than 25,000 tons of greenhouse gases in a year.
Environmentalists say the registry is an important step toward getting a handle on future climate change.

“Regardless of how one feels about cap and trade, carbon management of any kind will require accurate emissions data, and companies that know how to estimate them,” said Evan Juska, U.S. policy chief for The Climate Group, in an email. “As the saying goes, ‘You can’t manage what you don’t measure.'”

This is just the next step by the left to force American families to pay for their junk science.

Male Silverback commented:

Patty commented:

I thought they had been doing this forever. Obama is not the first to do this. But Obama is the first who will them down. And loss of Jobs and closures. He did say he would fine the Coal Industry and their fines would be so high, they would have to shutdown.

If the do the corrections on their violations it will be costly monetarily and Jobs.

Regulations are important for a great government but too many is a death sentence.

Obama is now implementing what he said he would do in Campaign. The Voters are the ones who voted for this. This is why he needs to be voted out of Office. We will see if their brains have soaked up what this mess of a man has dished out.

Rusty_MonkeyBars commented:

Is it possible to believe “greenhouse registry” data that is generated by the very scientists who have invented data to promote the bankrupt concept of global warming? It’s like letting an alcoholic guard the liquor cabinet.

If allowed to continue in its present capacity, the EPA will destroy this Country.

Patty commented:

Mikey commented:

If I received that order from the EPA, I would shut my plant down immediately. Go on strike.
And I would encourage all others in the area to stop their economic activity as well.
Fight fire with fire.
If 1/2 the plants in the US shut down we would have a real energy crises on our hands, that could be laid squarely at 0bama;s doorstep.
You want us to start back up?
Then get rid of these crippling regulations.
Cold winter is coming on.
Ball is in 0bama’s court

Rock commented:

Ipso Facto commented:

#12 – Great Idea! Just shut the plants down. If Obama is so fond of unions that go on strike to leverage their npositions in order to get concessions from management, how can he possibly have any objections to power plants going on strike to leverage their positions?

Also, there is an article here about a Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist who Resigns Over Global Warming.

In another recent article, it was exposed that the junk climate science is all based upon computer models and none of the models figure in the cosmic rays that emanate from the sun and affect cloud formation on earth. How convenient!

HarryO commented:

Bob commented:

This is written as though it was something new and special for Tampa. The greenhouse gas reporting rule went into effect for everyone in 2010. The permitting rule (tailoring rule) went into effect in 2011. The second one is the bad one. The reporting rule is simply more unnecessary record keeping for industry. The permitting rule is the one that limits production and energy use. I manage 17 renewable energy plants in 5 states. The rules are driving me nuts.

Tampa electric’s SCR is something that actually reduces smog-creating pollution. Whether it is needed is moot.

I just spent 2.5 years getting a permit for a landfill-gas-to-electricity plant in Florida. Spent $170k in modeling because of the new 1-hour NO2 standard. Will have to do it for two new plants. I just went through permitting for engines under the Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engine NESHAP (RICE MACT). We will be putting catalytic converters on engines that run 400 hours/year at $3000/engine. Not bad until you consider it is about 100 engines. Also, am covered under the so-called Boiler MACT because I have glorified water heaters to prevent engines from freezing in winter. It just keeps on coming.